New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-16
SUNDAY EDITION.
JAN. Is. 1887.
TOPICS IN PARIS.
RIBBONs-THE POoR-RUMp RS ABOUT TIN
GEAR.

nRoM THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE frmum.l
PARIS. Dec. 81.
The ribbon still triumphs-not on ladies' bon
nets and evening dresses but ON flower baskets.
It Is combined in the NEST striking and charmino
ways In bows. twists, braids. quillngs and many
other thin 8 which know not how to name on
baskets OF every possible form that is graceful The
flower like fair young face is not cast into the
shade but thrown into victorious prominence BY
this basket-millinery. One might fancy that lady.
hood had got tired Of adjoining itself and of court.
ing alteration and taken to adoriny the fair fresh
flower. I should not wonder IL this were so.
Schopenhauer. the pessimist philosopher, as inter-
preted by NJ. Caro- bein, now the fashion in the
Faubourg ST. German He teaches that ladyhood
Is the cause o! curses and that to women Of hum
bic station 1t is like sweeping rain that leaves
no earth behind OF course by ladyhood he means
the woman Of Western Europe who wants above
everything else to present fine appearance to the
world and pass for being wealthy. The late Cora
Pearl in the heyday of her prosperity might have
been included in this category. 1t may be also
that there is so much smart fippant and utterly
worthless rortrait-writing about men and women 0a
the time that we are getting tired Of human be-
incs and falling back on vegetable bloom which 10
so beautifully unconscious Of its charms and so
splendidly docile to the will of the Most High In
obeying tho laws Of its life.
At any rate. lovely woman is Just now here.
The milliner's art that used to be emrloycd In
making hcadgear to set of fair and other feminine
faces is now devoted to decking out rcceptacles
and shrines for blossoming plants II is incredfbS
what miracles of decorative art are accomplished
by the Parisiennes who do fowerbasket millinery.
The crowds that 90 every evening to look at the
shops on the BOulevards are prodigious. Old and
young. gentle and simple. men and women. parents
| a.. boot To
at LIE Vaillants win low-show every evening There
is as much amusement caused as admiration felt 40
the manner in which the ribbons are arranged
Nothing could he more clever. more fanciful mord
daring more fresh, more brilliant. in more per.
feet taste. ALI Is done with the most cunning aro
and the highest finish There Is no false chro-
matte note anywhere and the whole show Is so.gay
that the people who come to gaze at II from the
street foot-way can't help laughing Just as they
might at the witty sallies Of COquelin when Inc u
acting brilliant part
The pine may be regarded the king this sea
son il the flower is to be classed as queen IL mas
as Christmas tree made since 1870, when IL was
in that ca acity unknown here, the conquest OF
France It is the delight Of rich and poor ana
Germans may feel ealous Of the decorative genius
the Partisan shows in decking it with the products
Of Toyland and with fruits rpened in CONNECTION
ers' ovens All the past week pines have blocixed
the flower markets.
IF YOU want to know the history Of state aid to
the INDECENT from the time OF Greek antiquity 70
the present day, read book which the author haa
| lust brought me-"A Treatise on Hospital Admin
istration" by Gabriel Gros Mayrevielle, admins
trao or of tho hospitals Of Narbonne. in the south
of France 81 eros de Mayrevielle. who believe
is q Semitic. does not believe the poor will ever
| toft no land
charity may greatly soothe tho woes of poverty
| and that official parasitism which devours wnao
the State nearly everywhere gives to the ndlgenbs
may be greatly lessened to the benefit OF the lat
| ter ~ Mayreviclle Is not up to the theories on
Henry George and I am afraid our present day
socologists would think him oldfashloned Az
any rate, he has given them o valuable history On
public and State action in trying to soften the LOO
OF poyertystrickcn sufferers, and particularly III
France Wherever there was slavery there was
not pauperism I'm the modern sense. The WORKING
man had an owner whose business IL was TO iooS
after him as after distempered horse or cow.
This was the case In Greece, where the slave
masters being sober In their tastes and intellect
ual, could afford themselves fairly good com
sciences and act on the live and let live principles
They were not heavy any more than Luxurious
caters had no passion for gauds and gewgaws ana
changed their modes of dressing. there was moo
that terrible using up OF human energy in minis
tering to fashions freaks that there is In our
time Schopenhauer says that the modern lady, py
tho waste she causes OF this energy IN iact"riea
and workshops. is the greatest curse thai ever al
nicted the human race
see that the women employed in what ID
called tho Cars "secret service in Western Eu.
rope but who too openly serve MS Hnperiu
Majesty, scream out contradictions at the TWO 10
ports that in fit OF suspicious frenzy the Szsr
shot at short intervals two aides de-camp, namely
Count dc Reutern and q brother OF General wui-
laume. II is just probable that the second OF tho
two reports was circulated by agents OF tho Car
81, as TO be able to prove it false and. by implca
lion bring to nalsht the one affecting Count 10
Rcutcrn whom now hear has oecn seen a,.,o
by whom ply NJ. dc kireet. aide dc camp OF oIo
Grand Duke Consta milne and prolner oi Ma.as
ia NvvikoT one OF the skterhood In guesl"ns
The Grand Duke Constantine has been much 'eSc"
nv his sovereign and nephew because ne Is now
the eldest male member OF The impcriai i""ny'
a great roint in the eyes OF his Aslatlc sn1Ieos'.
What is more important he Is the ohiy .'''i0 wv
scendant Of the Emperor Nicholas VINO ha' . -"
intellect to speak Of The other members OF Ino
rei,rninp house are brutes who have nOt' saw
Vladimir an idea bcyoni drinking champagne anu
making love to the fastest sort OF actresses ic
cyceptionnl Grand Duke have just named NJ
rough colossus who goes In for farming ana seea
,br"ueh the ewes of his German wife. She fortu.
nately. notwithstanding all the ugly things sa,d
,uainst her in Madame Adams Review by Comse
paul Vassili lin this case nom DC plume ~, '',
I.w sion. ia a lady Of considerable strength or
character and very superior education Her grand
m"ther still living, is sister Of Emperor William.
A. dc Giers thinks that as Russia must try 20 geo
Greece round to her side the olive orancn snou,S QUIZ
bo held out to the Grand Duke Constantine anc
" Il. Krcef Is only rendering himself persona
rata at court by declaring that he saw Count 90
ieutern In the Crimea since the report went aoous
tSat tho Car shot him But NJ. de Kireef b the
only person who has seen that nooieman w,sn; IN
the pcrfod he has specified, and the family are IN
SaS,sir MT not having received from him any sign
to show that Inc Is alive.